Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
A detailed breakdown of every computer and piece of software visible in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. Covers the Apple PowerBook 100 in Alan Grant's trailer, the SGI R4000 Indigo and SGI IRIS Crimson workstations in the Control Room, PLI Mini Array storage devices, the Motorola Envoy PDA (which appeared before its commercial release), Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputers, Macintosh Quadra 700s, SGI Granite keyboards, SuperMatch 20-T and Mitsubishi monitors, and software including IRIX's gr_osview, the fsn 3D file explorer behind the famous 'It's a Unix system' scene, and QuickTime on System 7. Includes inflation-adjusted cost comparisons and production details from 'The Making of Jurassic Park', noting that Apple and SGI loaned roughly $4 million (2026 dollars) worth of hardware for the film.